Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lighthouse Island, New York


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The result was Delete

Lighthouse Island, New York
This page describes a small pile of rocks with a navigation light on it. The rock pile has no interesting properties; it is unremarkable in all respects. It is certainly no more interesting than any of thousands of other such anonymous piles of rocks with lights on them. I've been sailing in the waters around it for 20 years and I've never heard anybody refer to it as "Lighthouse Island". This article has no potential to become encyclopedic. I don't think I would go so far as to call it vandalism, but it certainly is pointless trivia. --RoySmith 02:10, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a sub-sub-stub if ever there was one. I can't even think of a page where this can be merged. 23skidoo 06:03, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * When someone writes an article on New York waterways, merge it into that. Until then, keep. All geographic trivia is notable and encyclopedic. History teaches us that today's "trivia" is tomorrow's priceless data.--Centauri 08:11, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * There already is Geography of New York Harbor. This is too trivial to bother merging into that.  There's also Hart Island, New York, and this is already mentioned there.--RoySmith 15:33, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: At this point, we're looking at nothing at all here. There is no article.  There are many islands off the main islands of NYC, many more off the coast of NY State.  Even Rambot manages to say something about its towns.  Geogre 14:15, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Hart Island, New York. Gazpacho 23:23, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing here worthwhile to keep. Centauri please see Section 7 of what Wikipedia is not. "Wikipedia is not a general database". Megan1967 00:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Rossami (talk) 00:53, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, even if piles of rocks can be interesting. Wyss 03:05, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, do not redirect. RickK 06:19, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no opinion on whether to redirect. --fvw *  17:27, 2005 Jan 5 (UTC)
 * Delete -- DCEdwards1966 21:22, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; as above. Newfoundglory 00:31, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and no need to redirect. The name does not appear in the USGS and they generally do have the names of the most incredibly obscure piles of rocks. older &ne; wiser 04:03, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wikipedia contains many obscure places.  --L33tminion | (talk) 04:07, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed vote to delete following discussion with RoySmith. --L33tminion | (talk) 05:05, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Roy, is this perhaps referring to Stepping Stones Light? Gazpacho 06:03, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it's not. See Talk:Lighthouse_Island%2C_New_York for more info RoySmith 15:54, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. -- Greaser 06:51, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. - Decumanus 01:09, 2005 Jan 10 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.